None of the blockbuster 3rd party games coming to switch 2017

[nuckles87]

BraLoD said:

nuckles87 said:

So, are we all just ignoring the Wii for some reason? Because that was Nintendo's best selling console ever, and that didn't have any of the major third party games. 

 

If Wii can do it, no reason why Switch can't.

64, GC and WU would be the reasons, 3 against 1.

Anyway, Nintendo wants to sell it as a console but it's a handheld, and handhelds only need mainline Pokemon and they'll sell.
The problem is Nintendo wanting to sell it as a console, priced as a console, and they have a 25% on success rate on selling consoles lacking major third party support with just one of them being able to, and not because of first party games, but because of a massive "non-hardcore" gamers boost which already moved to smartphones.

Being a handheld is the only non-reason for it to not underperform compared to those consoles, and as far as it'll sell better than those consoles, it won't reach the 3DS which is already a big drop on their handhelds track record (the lowest), because it's sold as a console, but lacks what the other consoles have, so yeah, it'll affect it.

That's a rather simplistic way to look at history.

Both GameCube and Wii U launched with fairly strong third party support and big names backing them. Hell, in terms of multiplatform titles GameCube was basically receiving everything the other consoles were. The problem both of these consoles faced was not third party support, it was poor hardware and software sales. Poor sales led to third parties dropping the consoles, which led to sales getting even worse. 

Third party support is always important for a console. But Wii, DS and 3DS all prove that you don't necessarily need a selection of big multi platform games to be successful, while systems like Xbox One, the original Xbox and GameCube all prove that solid third party support doesn't mean your console will fly off the shelves, or do especially well. A lot of factors go into a console's success or failure.

Switch is doing pretty well at the moment, and is showing no signs of slowing down. Will it slow down? Probably. But I think this is a console that will live or die by its gimmick and first party games, much like Wii and DS did.